At an August meeting, Shari Ballard and her fellow Ecolab board members received a management briefing on external challenges to the business. The breakout included tariffs, political instability, ...

Thirteen Minnesota business leaders are named finalists in EY's Entrepreneur of the Year Awards program. Get to know each of them here.

If you’ve ever come into Duluth on Interstate 35 from the south, you’ve probably noticed the prominent industrial building where the freeway bends to the left toward downtown. And if you’ve been ...

“There aren’t a lot of family businesses left in our space,” says Carissa Skorczewski, president of Groebner, a Rogers-based distributor of pipe, metering technology, and other equipment to the ...

A boring summer job at a U.S. embassy upended Kim Nelson’s career plan. Otherwise she might have become a major diplomat in President Obama’s administration. But as a young Black woman, she bypassed ...

Though she never opted to study medicine herself, Andrea Walsh may well have been destined to work in health care. The daughter of a Mayo Clinic nephrologist, Walsh grew up in Rochester, where the ...

More than four decades before you could get a king-size mattress delivered to your door in a compact box, Ken Larson disrupted the business of sleep. It was the late 1960s, and the options to buy a ...

The visionary behind the redevelopment of Breezy Point Resort on Pelican Lake is Robert Spizzo, who, in his more than 40-year tenure, has led continuous expansion and improvements including 750 ...

We’ve all driven past a Lorenz bus as we drive around the cities, but most of us haven’t been lucky enough to ride in a Lorenz charter carrying the Gopher football team or maybe the Minnesota Wild.

A 20-year veteran of 3M management, Cordell Hardy currently leads a functionally and geographically diverse solid-line reporting organization responsible for international enterprise, technical ...

Richard Davis retired as CEO of U.S. Bancorp in 2017, but his name surfaced at a Minnesota Business Partnership event Thursday because he was a giant in serving Minnesota beyond his C-suite job. Davis ...

With more than 20 years of experience in information security, litigation advisory services, and audit, Mary Elizabeth Faulkner oversees information security and IT operations to protect clients of ...